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Issuers are at the Root of the Corporate Actions Standardisation Problem, Agree Banking Panellists
Banking participants at last week’s CorpActions 2010 conference in London agreed that regulations are needed in order to compel issuers to provide corporate actions data in the right format at the start of the process. Justin Chapman, global head of strategic implementation for Asset Servicing at Northern Trust, contended that mandatory data tagging of corporate…
ICAP Expands Global Enterprise Data Distribution via Thomson Reuters to Include Key Japanese Benchmark Data from TOTAN-ICAP
ICAP, interdealer broker today announced the expansion of ICAP’s global enterprise data distribution via Thomson Reuters to include key Japanese benchmark data from TOTAN-ICAP in Japan. This strategic market data initiative will enable Thomson Reuters customers to contract for additional enterprise application usage and internal distribution of TOTAN-ICAP Japan-based data sets including; FX, money market,…
BNP Paribas Securities Services and the AXA Group Sign New Partnership Agreement
BNP Paribas Securities Services is delighted to have been appointed by AXA Group as custodian/depositary provider across several AXA entities and territories. The new five-year contract covering France, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Italy represents a comprehensive asset servicing partnership with the AXA Group across its insurance, real estate, private equity, investment management and corporate…
Progress Being Made on Defining T2S’s Potential Interaction with Corporate Actions, Says BNY Mellon’s Bodart
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) Target2-Securities (T2S) settlement system may have been delayed for an indefinite period (likely from the original date of 2013 to 2015), but important discussions are continuing on the possible interaction of the area of corporate actions with the securities settlement system. Paul Bodart, executive vice president and head of EMEA…
Bank Bukopin Selects FRSGlobal’s IFRS solution
FRSGlobal today announced that Bank Bukopin has selected FRSGlobal’s International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) solution. The deal was signed in collaboration with associate partner PT Nexia Indonesia Advisory Services (PTNIAS) – a partnership that was formed as part of FRSGlobal’s commitment to the Indonesian market. Tri Joko Prihanto, finance and planning director of Bank Bukopin,…
SEB’s Strandberg Talks up Need for Business Case for Corporate Actions Harmonisation
The Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG) and the Corporate Actions Joint Working Group (CAJWG) have come forward leaps and bounds in their endeavours to harmonise the industry’s corporate actions messaging formats, according to Christine Strandberg, global product manager for the Asset Servicing division of Nordic financial group SEB. However, the standards may be in place…
DTCC Adds Three Non-Participant Board Members to its Ranks, Two New Directors
As part of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) bid for the approval of its Trade Information Warehouse as a data repository for OTC credit derivatives, which was finally granted earlier this year, the vendor has been making a bid to prove its stability and independence as candidate for a single market utility in…
Thomson Reuters Strengthens Leadership of its Enterprise Business with Key Executive Appointments
Thomson Reuters today announced the appointments of industry executives David Kelly, Roseann Palmieri and Tanya Ezekiel to the leadership team of the Enterprise business. These strategic appointments demonstrate the investment Thomson Reuters is making to accelerate the existing growth of the Enterprise business and the delivery of its next generation solutions. Thomson Reuters is transforming…
Pay Per Click Emerging Markets Yield Curve Data via the FinDataPortal Platform
FinDataPortal (FDP), a financial portal, today announced that Kafafian Emerging Markets (KEM), a provider of treasury research data now offers its Daily Yield Curve data on FDP’s intuitive web-interface. The KEM suite of emerging market yield curves uses relevant market data to construct daily yield curves. It utilises a consistent methodology, which is designed to…
SIX Telekurs’ Raskin Explains Details Behind Acquisition of CSV’s Illiquid Instrument Pricing Business
In line with the current boom in the valuations sector, last week SIX Telekurs acquired the evaluated pricing business of niche player CSV in order to boost its offering at the more illiquid end of the instrument pricing spectrum. Barry Raskin, managing director of SIX Telekurs in the Americas, speaks to Reference Data Review about…